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Motor Service Provider, Charlie Heard, was engaged to carry three ladies on a daring outback adventure in 1930. Ada Beal, Lil Wilmot and Eileen Glenny were Charlie's intrepid passengers. He...

'What a treat! Brutal truths and bombshells galore. Profound reflections on life, longing and the legacy of Bob. It's like a long Friday lunch that you never want to end....

Prolific Australian author, Jim Connelly, ('Mountain Boy', 'Wild Beauty') turns to his own native Gippsland in his free-wheeling account of this beautiful, varied and historic region.

Much has been assumed and written about missionaries, with them often bearing the brunt of the criticism of Australia's Stolen Generation. The Colonisation of Australia initiated a time of massive...

Lifting the Lid - a memoir born of adoption is a compelling story told by a distinctive voice with heart and humour about identity, belonging and a woman's search for...

For the first time Kel's Corner, a widely read column and a favourite on the Bellarine Coast, has been compiled in a single volume. Ken Davis's stories, as told to...

In this new edition, Michael Carr-Gregg, Australia's leading adolescent psychologist, gives advice on how to work smarter, de-stress, get enough sleep and enjoy the final year! Every year, more and...

From Wall Street to the supreme court, how the world's largest banks control the money markets and crush competition In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money...

Many accounts of tourism have adopted an almost paradigmatic visual model of the gaze. This collection presents an expanded notion of spectatorship with a more dynamic sense of embodied and...

1 Flint Hill by Melissa Brown A historical narrative based in Colonial Victoria at the turn of the century. 1898, Ararat, Victoria Doctor Charles Lawler believes he has witnessed the...

The gripping story of Australia's first female crime writer and her career-criminal son When Mary Fortune arrived in Melbourne with her infant son in 1855, she was determined to reinvent...

A must-read biography of an enigmatic personality who helped shape early Melbourne Madame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today. But until...

'Roland Perry shows the true picture . . . enjoyable, clearly argued, comprehensive, and highly readable.' - Michael McKernan, Australian Book Review 11 March 1942: The Japanese have stormed the...

'Aussies love a good story and entertainer Jim Haynes has been telling them for decades' - Courier-Mail In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia , our master storyteller Jim...

'In the only war in which Australian soldiers ever faced off against the might of Mao, this is a revealing and spellbinding account of an extraordinary victory.' - Peter FitzSimons...

Early Europeans saw Victoria and its rolling grasslands as Australia felix -happy south land-a prize left for them by God. For its original inhabitants, their Country was home and life,...

Between 1942 and 1943, Qantas lost eight aircraft during its involvement in Australia's war against the Japanese. Over sixty passengers and crew died as a result. Yet Qantas' exemplary contribution...